Their site tells you in shot what 2Prong is all about:
2Prong is the only no-click disposable email system. By simply visiting this site the above address has already been saved to your clipboard. Paste(Ctrl+V) it in any form on a website that requires email verification and when the email is recieved it will pop up instantly in this box. 2Prong also changes the domain every 48 hours in order to prevent the addresses from being banned.
2Prong is inspired by Mailinator which offers a similar service.
This is indeed really good if you are skeptical about giving your email address while registering or if you want to give of an email temporarily without the fear or privacy.
But, I feel that this is also asking for a lot of illegal registrations.
One thing that I maintain about my sites. If I find out that the email address of the commenter is suspicious, I check it out. If it turns out to be an incorrect email, I’m reporting it as spam. I value my blog and I value my visitors and I value the comments that I receive.
And I definitely don’t want visitors who provide incorrect information.
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November 23rd, 2006 at 2:45 am
I hate webmail, and all the “disposable email” services are tantamount to webmail. Except one: Spamgourmet. You do have to sign up for this one, and do provide a real personal email address, but you have to trust someone, right?
It let’s you cook up temporary addys on the fly like Mailinator, and forward emails to the temp address to your registered real address. How does that stop spam? The temp addy includes a predetermined (by you) limited number of uses, after which it ceases to forward. Plus, each addy is unique, so as long as it’s forwarding it helps you identify who’s giving away addys.
With Spamgourmet I get on the fly addys, cut off spam automatically or when I choose, and everything filters into my regular email, checkable with my client app instead of clunky webmail.
November 23rd, 2006 at 8:28 am
Hi Fenriz,
Thanks for the comment and suggestion about Spamgourmet. Are you using the same?
I noticed your unique email @fastmail.net which you have used for this site. How do you find Fastmail? I believe used to track spam. Let me have a look at them as well
Regards,
Ajay
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:15 am
Yes, I use Spamgourmet a lot for forum and site registration, where I know they should only be seding me 1 or 2 legitimate emails. I didn’t use it here, though.
My fastmail account is just my secondary free account I use for most internet activity, instead of my personal addy. Check it out at http://www.fastmail.fm/. I initially used it because I used to use hotmail, but lost convenient access to it when I switched fom Outlook Express to Thunderbird. I still had lots of accounts registered with the Hotmail, so I got Fastmail to retrieve the messages for me, which I can access from Thunderbird as IMAP. Pretty cool, plus Fastmail has many domainnames to choose from.
Anyway, about the unique address (I input [myusername]+techtites@fastmail.net), many email systems support plus-addressing, tagging after the “+” symbol. It became popular mostly because Gmail noted it as a feature and everyone went crazy about Gmail’s ingeniousness, even though Google didn’t invent it. Both Fastmail and my Comcast ISP support plus-addressing. But some sites don’t accept plus-addressed addys (either because they assume it’s an invlid character, or they know about plus-addressing and don’t want to give you the option. If they really want your address, all they have to do is strip the “+” and everything after it up to the “@”)
November 23rd, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I knew about the + style in Gmail. It’s surprising how nobody ever bothered about this before :O
Thanks for enlightening me.